KNOOP, Johann Hermann (c.1706-1769)

Fructologie, Ou Description Des Arbres Fruitiers Ainsi Que Des Fruits Que L'on Plante Et Qu'on Cultive Ordinairement Dans Les Jardins... [Bound with] Pomologie, Ou Description Des Meilleures Sortes de Pommes Et de Poires, Que L'on Estime & Cultive le Plus, Soit Aux Pais-Bas, Soit En Allemagne, En France, En Angleterre, &C

Amsterdam, Chez M. Magérus, Libraire, 1771. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Rare French Edition of the first compendium of fruit arboriculture with 39 folding copper-engraved plates in fine contemporary hand coloring. Two foolscap-folio volumes bound in one: [ii],160,[iv],161-205,[1], with 19 plates (quince, cherry, plum, fig, currant, almond, chestnut, apricot, and other fruits and nuts) and large woodcut tailpieces; [ii],339 [i.e. 139]pp, with 20 plates by Jacob Folkema and Jan Caspar Philips (showing 103 apple varieties and 82 varieties of pears, with such evocative name as red apple paradise, Queen of England, siren lemon, and Mrs. Thigh). Title and preface from the Leeuwarden edition of 1766 bound in between Rr2 and Ss. Elegantly bound in early mottled calf, spine richly gilt in seven compartments divided by raised bands, green morocco lettering piece gilt, edges stained red, plain period end papers. An excellent copy of a superb production, the only notable flaw being three plates and several quires, as well as end papers and fly leaves, evenly browned. Hunt 620. Nissen BBI 1077 and 1079. Landwehr (Dutch Books with Coloured Plates) 90 and 94. Bunyard, Guide to the Literature of Pomology, p. 439. Oak Spring Pomona, p. 131. Burnet III 681. Both titles often found bound together. First published at Leeuwarden, in Dutch, in 1758 (Nissen BBI 1077). Knoop was head gardener to the Dowager Princess of Orange at Marienburg and is considered, with Duhamel du Monceau, the father of pomology. Especially with the Pomologia, he broke new ground: Knoop was first to publish scientific explanations of apples and pears from Dutch, German, English and French regions. The book's many beautiful illustrations almost appear three-dimensional through the use of shadow effects. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine .

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KOCH, Albrecht C. (1804-1867)

[Sea Serpent] [Moby Dick] Reise Durch Einen Theil Der Vereinigten Staaten Von Nordamerika in Den Jahren 1844 Bis 1846 [a Trip Through a Part of the United States in the Years 1844 to 1846]

Dresden und Leipzig, Arnoldische Buchhandlung, 1847. Quarter-Morocco. Scarce First Edition of this detailed account of a trip in search of the gigantic sea serpent, Zeuglodon. Text in German. Demy 8vo (225 x 145mm): [6],162pp, with frontispiece of dinosaur skeleton, hand-colored geological profile of the Gulf Coast, and advertisement leaf not mentioned in bibliographies. Recent quarter tan morocco over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, end papers renewed. Toning to first and final few pages, scattered dust-soiling (especially to deckled edges), but a very presentable copy in fine binding. Howes K234, Sabin 38198. Buck 391, Flake 4676. Streeter 850. In 1844, Koch, an obscure paleontologist who had emigrated to the United States in 1826 from Saxony, began the remarkable journey recounted in this day-by-day record. Koch operated an archeology museum in St. Louis, in the 1830s and 1840s, while also excavating fossil skeletons throughout North America. In 1840, he discovered the skeleton of a mastodon, which he dubbed "Missourium" and exhibited (after adding vertebrae from other animals) in his museum before taking it on tour to the East Coast and Europe. The fraud was quickly discovered and criticized by scientists on both sides of the Atlantic, obscuring Koch's major accomplishment: he was first to pronounce the contemporaneity of the mastodon and humans in the Americas. His travels recorded here took him by land and water from Martha's Vineyard to New Orleans and Alabama in search of the Zeuglodon, which he finally found in Alabama, in 1845. He baptized the 114 feet-long skeleton "Hydrarchos" and showed it on Broadway, in New York. In the pamphlet that accompanied his exhibition Koch links the creature to the biblical accounts of Leviathan, an association that may have inspired Herman Melville's account of the fossil whale in Moby-Dick. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine .

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LAURENCE [Lawrence], John (1668-1732)

The Clergy-Man's Recreation: Shewing the Pleasure and Profit of the Art of Gardening. By John Lawrence, A.M. Rector of Yelvertoft in Northamptonshire, and Sometime Fellow of Clare-Hall in Cambridge; [Bound with] the Gentleman's Recreation: Or the Second Part of the Art of Gardening Improved. Containing Several New Experiments and Curious Observations Relating to Fruit-Trees: Particularly, a New Method of Building Walls with Horizontal Shelters. Illustrated with Copper Plates. By John Laurence, M.A. Rector of Yelvertost in Northamptonshire. To Which Is Added by Way of Appendix, a New and Familiar Way to Find a Most Exact Meridian Line by the Pole-Star; Whereby Gentlemen May Know the True Bearings of Their Houses and Garden Walls, and Regulate Their Clocks and Watches, &C. By Edward Laurence, Brother to the Author of This Book. [and] the Fruit-Garden Kalendar: Or, a Summary of the Art of Managing the Fruit-Garden. Teaching in Order of Time What Is to Be Done Therein Every Month in the Year. Containing Several New and Plain Directions, More Particularly Relating to the Vine. To Which Is Added, an Appendix of the Usefulness of the Barometer; with Some Short Directions How to Make a Right Judgment of the Weather. By John Laurence, M.A. Rector of Yelvertost, in Northamptonshire

London, printed for Bernard Lintott, between the Temple-Gates in Fleet-Street [through 1718], 1717. Full Calf. Three volumes in one: Fifth Edition of the first, Second of the second, First of the third. 8vo: [2, the frontispiece and title page may be cancels],vi (dedication to Henry, Duke of Kent, from The fruit-garden kalendar transferred here, as usual, to The clergy-man's recreation [ESTC Citation No. T30847]),[8],84, with a copper-engraved frontispiece by Simon Gribelin and a letterpress illustration; [18],115,[1], with a frontispiece, four folding plates (including the plate showing a method of finding the meridian line, often missing) and a letterpress illustration (in this edition [ESTC Citation No. T142272], the last '7' of the date on the title page falls below the first 't' of 'Lintott', and on p.5 the "B" of the signature is below the "a" of "acquainted" in the final line); [4],v,[1],146 (wanting final 3pp of the appendix, but with 7 extra pages of Lintot's catalog), [10]pp, with a folding copper-engraved frontispiece. Period Cambridge-style calf paneled in blind, very skillfully rebacked, spine in six compartments divided by raised bands ruled in gilt, red leather lettering piece gilt. An excellent copy, the binding tight and secure, text generally clean and free of foxing, plates good impression, barring the first frontispiece, which is a bit weak. Henrey, 937, 939, and 943. Janson, pp. 149-155. Cagle 815, 816, and 817. The Clergy-Man's recreation, originally published in 1714, was Laurence's first published treatise on gardening, and was devoted almost exclusively to culture and training of fruit trees, and is of special historical interest, according to Henrey, for its early mention of transmission of a viruses by grafting. The gentleman's recreation, giving " some additional improvements and observation" relating to fruit trees followed in 1716, and The fruit-garden kalendar in 1718. The very practical nature of Laurence's treatises made them extremely popular, including with the colonists in America. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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LENFANT, Jacques (1661-1728)

[Council of Pisa] [Religion] [Catholic Church] Histoire Du Concile de Pise: Et de Ce Qui S'Est Passé de Plus Mémorable Depuis Ce Concile Jusqu'Au Concile de Constance. Enrichie de Portraits

Amsterdam, chez Pierre Humbert, 1724. First Edition. Full French calf. First Illustrated Edition, complete in two volumes bound in one, of this history of the Council of Pisa. 4to: liii,366; 327,[31]pp, with 16 full-page copper-engraved plates (portrait of the author by J. Houbraken after A. Pesne, one of the Prussian queen, one of papal medals, and 13 of the Council's participants) and two title-page vignettes. Separate title-pages in red and black, with superbly engraved vignette of the city of Pisa. Printed marginalia, bibliographical references, and index. Also includes "Declaration de Charles VI," declaring the Duke of Burgundy an enemy of the state. Contemporary full French calf, spine in seven compartments, very richly gilt, divided by raised bands; red morocco lettering piece gilt, edges speckled red. Armorial engraved bookplate of John Orlebar of the Middle Temple (1697-1765) to verso of title-page. (Orlebar was member of parliament, from the constituency of Bedford, from 1727-1734.) A superlative wide-margined copy, remarkably clean and fresh inside and out, with dark, rich impressions of the plates. Gibson's Library, p. 177. Brunet III 976 (first edition). Graesse IV 161. . The Council of Pisa "convened in 1409 with the intention of ending the Western (or Great) Schism, during which rival popes, each with his own Curia (bureaucracy), were set up in Rome and Avignon. [The Council] deposed the two existing pontiffs, who refused to cooperate, and elected a third, Alexander V. Western Christendom was therefore divided into three parties until the Council of Constance (1414-18), which forced the three contending popes to resign and elected Oddone Colonna, a Pisan cardinal, as Pope Martin V." (Britannica) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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LESLIE, John (1736-1778); DYER, John (1699-1757)

Killarney: A Poem; [Bound with: ] the Fleece, a Poem. In Four Books [Ravensdale Park]

Dublin / London, Printed for William Wilson / Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1772. Full Calf. First Editions of these two eighteenth-century poems in handsome contemporary binding with distinguished provenance. 4to (262 x 208mm): [8],50,2]; [4],156pp, with title page vignettes, list of subscribers, preliminary advertisement leaf, and final errata leaf; p. 49 misnumbered 94. Contemporary tree calf with large gilt armorial of T. G. Fortescue Esqr, Ravensdale Park to front and rear covers and engraved armorial book plate of Ella Park Lawrence and George Appleton Lawrence to front paste-down. A very handsome production in period boards, elegantly rebacked by Fitterer, securely bound and clean throughout. Rothschild 830 and Hayward 176 (for Dyer). Leslie's "wonder and delight" in the lakes, mountains, and woods of Killarney inspired his topographical poem (a second, octavo, edition appeared the same year, as did Phoenix Park, Leslie's only other published work). Two years earlier, William Gilpin had published his Observations on the River Wye, celebrating the picturesque in English landscape, and Killarney is one of the earliest Irish poems in that Romantic tradition. Dyer's pastoral on the woolen industry celebrates "Britain's commercial energies and depicts her social classes working harmoniously in a shared national purpose." (Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry) Dyer claimed The Fleece was the favorite of his poems, even if Grongar Hill was the most admired. Like Philips's Cyder, The Fleece was modeled on Virgil's Georgics, running thousands of lines of blank verse. Dr. Johnson mocked it, though Wordsworth recognized its "living landscape," especially "those soft scenes thro' which [his] childhood strayed." (ODNB) Provenance: Descended from a distinguished Irish family from County Louth. Ravensdale Park was built in an austere Italiante style by the architect Thomas Duff of Newry for Thomas Fortescue, 1st Baron Clermont, an Irish Whig politician and historian of the ancient Fortescue family of twelfth-century Devonshire origins. Ella Park Lawrence (1857-1924) was regent of the Rebecca Park chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Eight of her ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War, and during the Civil War her father ran an abolitionist newspaper. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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LEVER, Darcy (1760?-1839)

[Maritime] the Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor; or, a Key to the Leading of Rigging, and to Practical Seamanship

London, Printed for John Richardson, under the Royal Exchange; Black, Parry, and Kingsbury booksellers to the honourable East India Company; and William Heather, Leadenhall Street, 1808. Full Calf. Rare First Edition, second issue, of this key work on maritime and nautical procedures and equipment in the age of sail. Demy 4to (257 x 204): x,[2],120 pp, profusely illustrated with 110 engraved plates by the author and by William Butterworth of Leeds on 55 sheets showing 587 figures. Contemporary (or slightly later) brown calf spine in six compartments divided by raised bands, titled direct in gilt, covers framed in blind with rope roll; old ownership signature to title page, book plate of conservationist Frederick E. Ellis (1916-2010), of Shaw Island, Washington. A handsome example, soundly bound and generally clean throughout (pages and plates with occasional minor stains and browning, as often, and several neat old edge repairs). Maryne (Language of Sailing), p. 359. Apparently preceded by an issue printed in Leeds by Thomas Gil, with dedication to the Admiralty dated Leeds, 30 July, 1808. Lever's work became the standard text during the nineteenth century in England and America, offering precise explanations of the principles of rigging, full details of a ship's operation through the effect of the wind on its sails, tacking, use of the compass, casting, and much more. "Original in concept, it met with immediate success, and for the next forty years continued in steady use as a standard textbook for young officers of the Royal Navy and the merchant marine. The introduction states that the work was planned many years before and was then finished 'for the advantage of a young gentleman whose inclinations led him to the choice of a sea-faring life'." (ODNB) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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LIEBKNECHT, Jo[hann]. Georg (1679-1749)

Elementa Geographiae Generalis, Triplici Sectione Exposita, I. Praeliminaris Naturam & Constitutionem, Itemque Studii Istiussara Monstrat. II. Doctrinalis Assections Ejus Demonstrat, & III. Artificialis Objecti Repraesentationem Commonstrat. Cum Praestatione, Figuris Aeneis, & Indice

Frankfurt, Dominicus a Sande, 1712. Paper-Covered Boards. First Edition, in Latin. Foolscap 8vo (160 x 98mm): [14],476,[38]pp, with title-page vignettte of galleon in full sail, woodcut head- and tailpieces and historiated initials, and 25 folding copper-engraved plates. Bound in speckled paper-covered boards (scuffed with minor loss to edges, spine, and rear board), all edges stained red. The binding is tight, the pages and plates all exceptionally clean and bright. An excellent example. Houzeau I, 10934. The German mathematician, astronomer, and theologian Johann Georg Liebknecht was a member of the Royal Society and correspondent of Leibniz. The present work, divided into three books, is equal parts mathematics, astronomy, geography, surveying, and navigation. Much of the content pertains to the scientific instruments each field employed in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine .

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LISTER, Martin (1638?-1712)

A Journey to Paris in the Year 1698

London, printed for Jacob Tonson, at Gray's-Inn Gate next Grays-Inn Lane, 1699. Early Reprint. Full Calf. Third Edition (so stated) of this account of the author's travels to Paris, overflowing with observations of natural history collections, estates, and libraries, as well as commentary on science, art, food, wine, medicine, and more. Crown 8vo (185 x 115mm): [8,first leaf is blank],248pp, with 6 engraved plates (3 folding) of a wasp's nest, snails, a millipede, and a centipede. Early full speckled calf, spine richly gilt in five compartments divided by raised bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt, edges speckled red. Engraved armorial bookplate of John Rolle, Baron Rolle of Stevenstone (1750-1842). An excellent example, sporadically scattered marginal foxing only, else a clean, crisp copy in handsome period binding. Wing L2527. Bibliotheca bibliographici 3046. ESTC R2460. Preceded by two editions published the same year. Late in 1697, Lister accompanied William Bentinck, Lord Portland, on a diplomatic mission to Paris as physician. "His duties left him ample time to meet and talk with other intellectuals, to see their collections and gardens, and to explore the city. He was there for six months and shortly after his return published A Journey to Paris in the Year 1698. The book ran to three editions within a year, but was lampooned by William King for its supposed triviality. In fact, it is a unique first-hand account of Parisian scientific society, and a useful description of the city and its life." (ODNB) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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LIVINGSTON, Peter

[Original Cloth] the Poetry of Geography: A Journey Round the Globe. In Which a Comprehensive View of the Earth Is Taken, and Facts Made Familiar to the Mind of All. A Book for Families, Students, and Schools

London, Groombridge and Sons, Paternoster Row, 1853. Decorative Cloth. First Edition of this scarce and unusual geography primer. Foolscap 8vo (161 x 98mm): x,100pp, with engraved folding frontispiece depicting the globe's hemispheres. Original publisher's burgundy cloth stamped in gilt and blind, citron yellow end papers. Spine sunned, first few leaves lightly spotted, but an excellent copy, tightly bound and generally clean throughout. FirstSearch lists only four institutional copies worldwide; rare in commerce as well, with no copies noted at auction by Rare Book Hub. Lessons in the history of many nations presented in florid prose and frequent quotation of poetry. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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LONGUEVILLE, Peter, fl. 1727 [DORRINGTON, Edward]

[Robinson Crusoe] [Hand-Colored] the Hermit: Or, the Unparallel'd Sufferings and Surprising Adventures of Mr. Philip Quarll, an Englishman: Who Was Lately Discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol Merchant, Upon an Uninhabited Island in the South-Sea; Where He Has Lived Above Fifty Years, without Any Human Assistance; Still Continues to Reside, and Will Not Come Away. Containing, I. His Conferences with Those Who Found Him out; to Whom He Recites the Most Material Circumstances of His Life; As, That He Was Born in the Parish of St. Giles, Educated by the Charitable Contribution of a Lady, and Put 'Prentice to a Locksmith. II. How He Left His Master, and Was Taken Up with a Notorious House-Breaker, Who Was Hanged; How, After His Escape, He Went to Sea a Cabin-Boy, Married a Famous Whore, Listed Himself a Common Soldier, Turned Singing-Master, and Married Three Wives, for Which He Was Tried and Condemned at the Old Baily. III. How He Was Pardoned by King Charles II. Turned Merchant, and Was Shipwrecked on This Desolate Island on the Coast of Mexico. With a Curious Frontispiece and a Map of the Island

London, printed for J. Wren, opposite New Exchange Buildings in the Strand; S. Crowder, H. Woodgate, J. Fuller, and J. Warcus, 1768. Early Reprint. Quarter-Calf. Fourth Edition of one of the "best of the English imitations of Robinson [Crusoe]." (Gove) 12mo: xii,263,[1]pp (wanting one quire, pp 83-86, provided in excellent facsimile on old paper), with hand-colored frontispiece and map. The final page is signed "Ed Dorrington," an invention of the publisher. Later quarter-calf over marbled paper-covered boards, marbled end papers. Near Fine or better, light finger-soiling and occasional small stain to text, manuscripts ex-libris to end papers and title page, otherwise excellent. Negley 1462. Gove, pp.262-68. Cox II, p.479 (citing Dorrington as author). Sabin 66952. Howgego V, L45. Ullrich, pp. 118-122. Charming hand-colored edition of this popular tale relating a fictitious British hermit's escape from apprenticeship and subsequent life on a deserted island off the Pacific coast of Mexico. First published serially in the Public Intelligencer, a weekly newspaper, then in book form in 1727, and eventually "rivalling Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, of which it is possibly the best imitation." (Howgego). The book's author remained anonymous until Arundell Esdaile discovered a rare edition of 1727 in which the dedication is signed Peter Longueville, to whom the work is now attributed. Gove cites a number of literary allusions, attesting to the tale's popularity. Among these are Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit, in which John Westlock complains that his chambers are "nothing but . the sort of impromptu arrangement that might have suggested themselves to Philip Quarll or Robinson Crusoe." See also Gove, quoting Bonner, that the author "transferred many passages unblushingly from Dampier [A New Voyage Round the World]." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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MARTIN, Alexandre (1795-1864)

[Hand-Colored] Manuel de L'Amateur de Melons Ou L'Art de Reconnaître Et D'Acheter de Bon Melons ; PréCédé D'Une Histoire de Ce Fruit Et Une Nomenclature de Ses Diverses Espèces Et Variétés

Paris, Auguste Udron, rue du Battoir, no. 20, 1827. Quarter-Calf. Rare First Edition of Martin's charming melon lover's manual. 12mo (129 x 75mm): [4],iv,156pp, with delicately four hand-colored lithographs depicting nine varieties of melon (in section and whole) and a Piquet à Thermomètre de Regnier. Contemporary black quarter-calf lettered, ruled, and decorated with Empire motifs in gilt over deep blue textured paper-covered boards, marbled end-papers, brown silk page marker. Tide line at foot of first three leaves (barely perceptible to following seventeen), occasional light scattered spotting (plates unaffected), but a well-preserved example of this rare horticultural title. Vicaire 568. Carteret, III, p. 401 ("charmant petit livre"). Cagle 310. Maggs no. 645 (Food and Drink) 414. Seventeen chapters cover a wide range of topics on melons, including their cultivation on trellises and in rows, care, varieties, and gastonomic appeal, ending with a ten-page bibliography. Martin followed this work with monographs on coffee, oysters, and truffles. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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MATTHEWS, John

[Slave Trade] a Voyage to the River Sierra-Leone, on the Coast of Africa; Containing an Account of the Trade and Productions of the Country, and of the CIVIL and Religious Customs and Manners of the People; in a Series of Letters to a Friend in England

London, printed for B. White and Son, at Horace's Head Fleet-Street; and J. Sewell, Cornhill, 1788. First Edition. Full Calf. First edition. 8vo: iv,183,[1]pp (p.142 mispaginated 147), with folding copper-engraved frontispiece of a view of the island Bananas and large folding map of part of the coast of Africa, from Cape St. Ann to the River Rionoonas. Contemporary tree-calf boards with braided gilt frame, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down, spine in six compartments stamped with gilt emblems in three, raised bands flanked by gilt rules, original red morocco lettering piece gilt. A superb copy, with virtually spotless pages within a handsome binding. Hogg 161. Cox I, p. 387. Gay 2852. Sabin 46888. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 13533. A good account of the country and its people conveyed in a series of letters written by a naval lieutenant during a residence in Sierra Leone, in the years 1785, 1786, and 1787. The final letter, added after Matthews's return to Liverpool, defends the slave trade. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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[MILLER, James, 1704-1744]

Harlequin-Horace: Or, the Art of Modern Poetry

London, printed for Lawton Gilliver at Homer's Head against St. Dunstan's church, in Fleetstreet, 1731. Marbled Wrappers. Scarce First Edition, written in 56 stanzas of rhyming verse, of this satirical poem. Foxson's second state (no known priority): correct catchword on p. 57 and p. 58 correctly numbered. Crown 8vo (189 x 122mm): [10],59,[1]pp, with folding engraved frontispiece and woodcut initials and ornaments. Later marbled wrappers, paper label printed in red and black to front cover, title page printed in red and black with bust vignette of Horace. A beautifully preserved copy, tightly bound and clean throughout. Foxon M251. Miller was a playwright whose own works were performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and who adapted plays by Molière and other French dramatists for the London stage. He only revealed his authorship of this work in the fourth edition, of 1735. Harlequin-Horace is a "witty inversion of the Ars poetica, attacking pantomime and opera and exuberantly depicting a topsy-turvy theatrical world. Alexander Pope approved, as did his disciples on the Grub-Street Journal . [The poem] lampooned the Italian operas of Handel, but Miller admired the sacred oratorios in English, and himself furnished the libretto for Joseph and his Brethren." (ODNB) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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MORRIS, William (1834-1896)

The Earthly Paradise : A Poem [3 Volume Set] : Vol. I: Parts I and II; Vol. II: Part III; Vol. III: Part IV

Boston, Roberts Brothers [through 1871], 1870. First Edition thus. Decorative Cloth. First and Early Printings of the first American edition of this Victorian reworking of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, four parts in three volumes (as issued), the complete Author's Edition, with title pages dated as follows: Volume I (1870); Volume II (1871); Volume III (1871). Crown 8vo: [8],430,[2]; [8],382,36,[6]; [6],401,[1]pp. Uniformly bound in publisher's emerald green cloth, spines stamped in gilt, beveled edges, top edges gilt, coated chocolate-brown end papers. Elegant owner's signature on first fly-leaf of each volume, dated 1871; contemporary calling card laid in with message on verso: "Returning your book for which I am very greatly obligated to you." Minor bubbling on several covers (binding defect), pages of Volume I marginally toned, else a superb set, apparently unread and virtually pristine. Printed in editions of 500, 500, and 1000 copies, respectively. Pye 2b.3, 3b.2, 5b.1. Forman, p. 58 (noting this edition was printed from advance sheets [from the third London edition] supplied by Morris's publisher, F. S. Ellis. But according to Pye, the book was issued with both imported and domestic sheets. Our copies are from the domestic sheets.). A series of twenty-four tales, two for each month, with twelve from classical sources and twelve chiefly from medieval Latin, French, and Icelandic originals. In the mid-1860s, "Morris entered a vigorous new poetic phase which established him as one of the most popular poets of his period, on a par with Browning, Tennyson, and Swinburne. The poem that made Morris famous, The Earthly Paradise, is a large, highly coloured, hugely energetic sequence of narrative poems, a Victorian reworking of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The framework is the story of a band of late fourteenth-century Norsemen, fleeing the black death, setting sail in search of the reputed earthly paradise 'Where none grow old'. Failing to find it, they arrive at 'a nameless city in a nameless sea' where they are welcomed by the elders. " (ODNB) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. Orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Keywords: Literature, Medieval -- Paraphrases. Mythology, Greek. Literature, Medieval. Mythology, Greek.

MOUNTAIN, James

The History of Selby, Ancient and Modern : Containing the Most Remarkable Transactions, Ecclesiastical, CIVIL, and Military, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Period : Interspersed with Portions of General History, Connected with the Subject

York, Printed for the author by Edward Peck, Lower-Ousegate, 1800. Paper-Covered Boards. First (and only) Edition of this account of the market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, the only published work of James Mountain, of whom little is known. 12mo (186 x 107mm): [4],x,162; 40,[22]pp, with folding frontispiece plan of Selby and folding plate (North West View of the Church of St. Germains Selby). Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper-covered boards, oval printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Engraved armorial book plate with motto "Honori Justitiae Virtuti" to front paste-down. Spine and covers rubbed and marked, pages occasionally spotted (plates unaffected), but a superb wide-margined copy, securely bound in original boards and generally clean throughout. Uncommon in commerce and in institutions outside of the British Isles, with ESTC recording copies at only four locations in North America (Harvard, Huntington, Honnold, and NYPL). Upcott III XCLVIII (pp. 1406-07). ESTC T36452. In two parts: The history of Selby, ancient and modern, and The history of Cawood, its castle and church (with separate title page, pagination, and register, and including a list of the archbishops who have resided at Cawood). Also includes "The Selby Directory for the year 1800," "A list of the Principal Inhabitants residing at Cawood," and list of subscribers, and "A poem on the ruins of Pontefract Castle," a romantic memorial to the famed Royalist stronghold raised to the ground during the English Civil War; Richard II is thought to have died there. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Keywords: XIX CENTURY